RE: TRIMming of loval

I love varying length fields.  However many exit points don't.

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
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> What's wrong with this picture , or, does trim only trim blanks and not
> nulls?

>From the manual, the description of the BIF is clear:

%TRIM (Trim Blanks at Edges)


Now, I don't know enough about what you're trying to do from the code, but
if you're trying to convert from a null-terminated string to a
varying-length character field, I'd suggest a VARYING field and the STR 
BIF.

curdirout = %STR(C_DIRECTORY);  // Make sure curdirout is VARYING

>From that point on, you can concatenate with and take the length of
curdirout directly without resorting to TRIM.

Joe



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